cPanel Website Hosting Revealed

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting perplexed? We certainly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weakness Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. At times, based on the billing tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...